title: Bottom-up construction of POM-based macrostructures: coordination assembled paddle-wheel macroclusters and their vesicle-like supramolecular aggregation in solution.
abstract: A bottom-up approach to obtain nanoclusters and large, uniform vesicle-like structures containing organic functionalized hexamolybdates in solution state were developed. Hexamolybdate functionalized carboxylic acid coordinated with two copper ions to form paddle-wheel tetrapolyoxometalate clusters with the features of macro-ions, which can spontaneously assemble into large, stable blackberry-type structures in suitable solvents, completing a hierarchical organization from small POM molecules to nanoscale complexes and then to supramolecular structures.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yi
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authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Panchao
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authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Fengping
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authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Dong
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authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Emily
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authors.lastname: Bitterlich
authors.forename: Zicheng
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authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Jin
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jian
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authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Tianbo
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authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yuan
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authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yongge
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authors.lastname: Wei